Quotes About Clarity

It was the end of all understanding.

Lo fundamental de la escoba, las cerdas o el mango, depende de si se quiere barrer o romper ventanas

Helping them eliminate the error involves drumming into student writers two big injunctions: (1) Do not presume that the reader can read your mind — anything that you want the reader to visualize or consider or conclude, you must provide; (2) Do not presume that the reader feels the same way that you do about a given experience or issue — your argument cannot just assume as true the very things you're trying to argue for.

Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.

That fist he was raising at me would wham into the cupboard door, hurting only himself. I saw it all happening, then it really did happen. But I didn't understand the whore thing. Why was he confusing the drinking with the other? Then I got it. Obvious. It was all mixed up for him, all the same thing: the drinking, the other, anything that could make a woman free.

Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.

You broke the problem down and examined the component parts. Most men attempt to solve riddles by allowing their minds to leap like monkeys from branch to branch, without ever realizing that it is the root that needs examining. Always remember that, young prince. The method works with men as well as it works with riddles.

In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the words we use to tie each other down. Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.

I have been trying to think clearly about everything and to use all this distance to advantage. And here is what I've discovered. I don't love you, Ishmael.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

Alis grave nil. May language release you from its lies.

The heart wants what it wants -- but sometimes it takes time to figure things out.

Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction;

As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less

Set a clear focus in your life , and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God's purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.

Jesus said, "Nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light" (Luke 8:17).

Don't be so sure that what you want is what you should have.

It's not rocket surgery!

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.